when life gives you lemons...

Brad says,

While the attack did kill service for a good portion of the users for almost a day, there is an upside: We've now totally redone the configuration of our backend and setup new hardware/software to just ignore attacks like this in the future. We've also fixed a bunch of our load balancing bottlenecks which the attack highlighted.

As a result, the site is faster and more robust than ever.

We apologize for the downtime, though. We wish there was more we could've done to prevent this. We've extended the expiration date on all paid accounts by 4 days as way of saying sorry.

Brad and crew rock.

French bashing

This is where I think the real difference is. We Americans are famously ahistorical. We can barely be bothered to remember what happened last week, or last month, much less last year. The French are really stuck on history. (Some might claim this is because the French are better educated than we are. I won't go there.) Does it not occur to anyone that these are very old friends of ours, trying to tell us what they think they know about being hated by weak enemies in the Third World?

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0220-04.htm

Molly Ivins

... in bed

Try discern why you have recieved mysterious information.

'Cause I opened a stupid fortune cookie, that's why!